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GAME.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.22, I9Ie.

1,228,256. Patented App-1911 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

JACOB ri'. coPPivIAN, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

Application led August 22, 1916. Serial N o. 116,278.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB H. Corri/IAN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county'of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing. This invention relates to improvements in games, one object of the invention being the provision of a game to be played with marbles and which is so constructed land arranged as to require skill to play and se'- cure a high score, and which is amusing.

'A further object of this invention is the provision of a game in which a vertical plate is provided with a plurality of apertures through which marbles are to be projected in combination with a deflecting means mounted at the rear thereof, the object of which is to change the course of the marble in passing through any one of the openings and to direct the same rearwardly through said openings. y

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the game apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the bell clapper and mounting.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates the main supporting member which is made of a fiat piece of material, either wood, cardboard, or paper fiber, as may be found desirable, or the same may be made of metal.

Upon the lower edge of this board are provided a plurality of arched openings or notches 11, here shown as indicating, beginning with the numeral 5, multiples of 5, up to 25.

Also provided in the lower edge of the member 10 are a plurality of vertical slots l2 for the reception of the hook terminals 18 of the triangular marble guiding members 14 which are disposed to project forwardly from the member 10 and coperate so as to provide converging guideways to each of the respective openings 11.

Attached to the rear of the member 10 ,each one of which is provided with the projection 21 and coperates with the strip 20 to form a bell clapper.

Mounted upon the forward portion of the member 10 above the respective outer openings are the indicator dials 22 having' printed thereupon multiples of 5 up to a predetermined number, and as two can lay the game, there are two of these mem ers,

one to each player, to prevent confusion.

The indicating pointer 23 is made from a single strand of wire and is provided with the hook terminal 24 and with the intermediate integral linger engaging loop 26.

In playing the present game, marbles are employed, and after the member 10 is placed in an upright position, being supported by means of the triangular guiding members and the deflecting member so as to be steady at all times, such members constituting feet for the member 10, the players mark ofl" a line approximately two to three feet from the front surface of the member 10, and each player is given' five or ten marbles to play with.V y

Itis the object of the game to cause a marble to enter one of the openings, as for instance 5, strike the deflecting member 16, and return through one of the other openings at the right, and as long as such return is made the marble is in play, the total of the numbers above the openings through which the marble passes being scored and indicated upon the respective players indicator. Should a player shoot a marble through the entrance 5 and at the Sametime ring the bell his amount is doubled, that is he is credited with 10 and, if the same marble makes its exit through the entrance or opening 25 he is credited with 35 but should he ring when coming out of the gate 25 as is oftenv the case, then he is credited with by such play.

Should the marble fail to return or miss an opening in its forward projection, the same is out of play.

Any total may be a game, as for instance, one hundred to Ve hundred, and the first player to reach that amount is the winner.

What I claim as new is:-

l. A game apparatus, including a relatively flat strip having a plurality of open ings through the lower edge thereof, a deflecting member attached to the rear of such member and in the path of the openings, an audible alarm carried by the deiiecting member, and means for actuating said alarm also carried by said member and disposed in the path to be engaged by a projectile.

2. A game apparatus, including a relatively at strip having a plurality of openings through the lower edge thereof, a de- 20 fleeting member attached to the rear of such member and in the path 4of the openings, and

a plurality of guide forming members attached to the front face of said strip, two of said members coperating to form a projectile guide for each opening.

3. A game apparatus, including a relatively flat strip having a plurality of openings through the lower edge thereof, a deiiecting member attached to the rear of such member and in the path 0f the openings, an audible alarm carried by the deiecting meniber, means for actuating said alarm also carried by said member and disposed in the path to be engaged by a projectile, and a plurality of guide forming members attached to u the front face of said strip, two of said members coperating to form a projectile guide for each opening.

In testimony whereof l afIiX my signature.

JACOB H. COFFMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

